Essentially it's like trading draft picks, this year's Baseball Prospectus essay on the Yankees talks about how they did that so much in recent years. Granted, they used their picks somewhat poorly, but I agree with that conclusion that it is essentially trading picks. Also, if your team loses players, I have no problem getting comp picks. And that makes Theo Epstein smart. Amen, I sometimes throw around the "G"(enius) word with him, but I just woke up.